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Setting:
This chapter takes place in August,1966
In this chapter, students write da-zi-baos about their teachers and some bourgeoisie, and paste them on the school wall and their houses' walls.


Plot:
In this chapter, when Ji-li goes to school, she found that there are no teachers and that she have to write da-zi-baos about them and some bourgeoisie, but she couldn't write any and neither An-yi, so they decided to copy the news articles. After writing da-zi-baos, students paste da-zi-baos on the school walls and also on the bourgeoisie's houses. That is when she knew that there is Aunt Xi-wen, who is her father's sister, among the bourgeoisie, so she decided to go to there. Aunt Xi-wen has to paste da-zi-baos about her on the wall.

Characters:
I learned that Ji-li have an aunt, and about Chairman Mao, I learned that he made people to think that teachers are making student to think that teachers are revisionist and making them revisionist, so he made students to criticize teachers and bourgeoisie, and made them to write da-zi-bao.


Analysis:
This chapter is important to the story, because in this chapter, they starts to use da-zi-baos to criticize people like bourgeoisie and teachers.